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If Something Awful Happens, Someone Will Make An Awful Game About It. Chris Dorner Is Just The Latest.

When a tragedy or major event occurs, you can bet on a few key things happening. People will grieve. The newsreel will spin. Twitter will blow up. The Onion will satirize. The blogosphere will write. And of course, thanks to the blessings of accessible game development: someone will make a game. Unfortunately, recent happenings with…

And Then, For A Moment, Remember Me Turned Into The Running Man

One of the oddest parts of Remember Me, which I checked out on Tuesday and liked, was this bit at the very end of my hour-long demo. As Nilin made her way through the game’s second level, the malls and apartments were all playing ads for this famous bounty-hunter dude who, surprise surprise, turns up…

The Heroes And Villains Of Fire Emblem Wish You Happy Valentine’s Day

It’s Valentine’s Day, and so lots of video game companies are putting out goofy cards to celebrate. But what about Fire Emblem: Awakening, one of the most romantic games in recent memory? What would Fire Emblem Valentines look like? Cute, it turns out. The Nintendo 3DS Facebook Page has shared some fun Valentines based on…

A Heartwarming Valentine’s Day Song From Chell To Her Companion Cube

Portal may not seem like the most romantic game ever, seeing as how it’s populated with a bunch of robots and only a single human character. But even all these years later, people still haven’t gotten over protagonist Chell and her doomed relationship with the heart-decorated Companion Cube. The folks at Random Encounters Entertainment (not…

One Redditor writes an interesting—and funny—post about what it’s like to develop for consoles

Aaaaaahhhhhh! It’s A Low-Gravity Medieval Brawl

There’s already a lot to like about Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, the first-person medieval combat game from Torn Banner. But there’s perhaps even more to like about this video of a bunch of people playing on a low-gravity server. Hang with it for about thirty seconds and you’ll be sold. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! (Via Chris Remo)

In Defense Of That Aliens: Colonial Marines GIF Everyone Keeps Making Fun Of

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with Aliens: Colonial Marines, you’ve probably come across a certain GIF of an alien waddling through a sewer level. See above. I know, I know. It looks silly, it looks ridiculous. And I’m here to defend that level. The GIF doesn’t inspire confidence in the game, no. Just…

This 3DS RPG Looks Weird And Trippy And Awesome

This is Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, an Atlus-developed role-playing game for 3DS that’s part of the Shin Megami Tensei series. It’s a first-person dungeon crawler set, like most SMT games, in a demon-filled version of Japan. Above is the “story trailer” for Soul Hackers, which was originally released for Sega Saturn and then PS1 in…

12 out of 15 video game creators would make a new Star Wars game, Wired discovers. (Prepare for a twist ending.)

The Romantic Moments In Video Games That Remind You Of Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day putting us all in a romantic mood it was our duty to gather some of the defining aaaawww moments video games offer. A great deal of game endings below so watch out for heavy spoilers! The Ending Of The First Prince Of Persia source: Prince Of Persia Final Level Nate And Elena…

The Top PVP Players in Avengers Alliance Deserve Punishment

Avenger’s Alliance is a single-player turn-based role-playing game, but it’s also a competition, with players vying for top positions in seasonal PVP tournaments. Season five is around the corner, and players that fight harder than most have a chance to secure the punishment they so richly deserve, courtesy of artist Mark Texiera. No one knows…

Nintendo Keeps Trying To Be My Mom. It’s Weird, But Maybe More Developers Should Try It, Too.

It’s 4am. I’m lying down in bed, barely holding up my 3DS. By that point, I’ve been playing Fire Emblem: Awakening all night—long enough that I wouldn’t blame anyone for wondering if I’m sharp enough to keep pretending I’m still a competent tactician. But, I don’t care. The game has me wired; it’s that good.…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Takes You Out into the Streets and Gives You Rabbids

I’ve never, ever seen a Google Street View truck out in the wild. And now that I think about it, I don’t know that I want to. It’d be a little creepy, knowing that its magic penetrating cameras are sucking all the data out of my pores without my permission. But if you want to…

Play A Whole New Sort Of Interactive Fiction, Then Write Your Own

There’s a lot to be said for text-based interactive fiction. It engages our imaginations so directly, and gets away from a lot of the challenges present in graphical games that offer interactive stories. In games like Mass Effect and The Walking Dead, more choices mean that the developers need to make more content, and the…

This is a Real Prototype PS4 Controller

This photo, which as far as we can tell first appeared at Destructoid, appears to be a prototype controller for the next PlayStation. From the look of it, it mostly matches up with what our sources have told us about the system, code-named Orbis. An industry source familiar with the new system tells us the…

Our redesigned, car-loving pals at Jalopnik have played some of May’s Grid 2. They detect a viable Forza competitor.

Those With Friends Games Sound Like a Fine Place to Find Yourself a Valentine

I guess Words with People You Want to Hook Up With was just too long a title. In honor of the day before discount candy, Zynga has crafted an infographic to demonstrate what a hotbed of flirting the “With Friends” franchise really is. Who uses the chat function of a mobile game to hit on…

Looking For a Launch Game For Ouya…

“At the end of the day, Ouya is beautiful, but people don’t buy consoles,” the woman behind the Android-based home console that is coming out next month recently said to me. “They buy content.” She’s right, right? Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said this while she and I chatted in Las Vegas last week. People get…

Steam is now available for Linux. In celebration, Valve is offering a big sale on Linux-supported games

The New Ultima Can’t Come Soon Enough

I’ve not seen a more tantalizing “Coming Soon” at the end of a trailer in quite some time. Set 21 years after the events of 1985’s Ultima IV, Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar looks to capture the feel of that classic role-playing game with modern-day mechanics. What was originally planned as a reimagining of…